No, I went for Complete, I believe...whichever one costs 2 grand (ouch, my aching wallet). Yes, it comes with mental ray, and my personal preference is for NURB creation, because I like to work with splines. But I can see a day when I'll be using polys, because you can do stuff with them that NURBs only approximate...and there are situations when you need to poly-create and NURBs will not turn the trick.

I posted my first attempt on a different thread, it's no mean shakes, but I'm also sorta getting into the native renderer instead of PIXAR's. It looks a lot like a photographic-type rendering engine.

My Best,
Gare